Monday, September 10, 2012
More game rides in Akagera National Park. Here is a partial list of animals we spotted:
Birds: Anhinga, Pied-kingfisher, Papyrus Yellow warbler, African fish eagle, Red-eared cordon bleu, and Marabou stork. And most of all, the species that birders travel half-way around the to see, the diminutive and ever so elusive swamp flycatcher.
Antelope: Roan antelope (third or fourth largest antelope species), Topi (who Ged Caddick says "legs look like someone used shoe polish on"), Defassa's waterbuck, rare oribi and not as rare impala.
Others included Nile crocodile, Olive baboon, Vervet monkey, Masai giraffe, Nile moitor lizard and the hippo.
We saw some on a boat ride on Lake Ihema
Next onto the Virunga mountains and the mountain gorilla.